Type specimens of Limnophorini (Diptera: Muscidae) deposited in the Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Author Couri, Márcia courimarcia@gmail. Author Pont, Adrian Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Parks Road, Oxford OX 1 3 PW, United Kingdom. pont. muscidae @ btinternet. com text Zoologia 2020 e 46879 2020-08-28 37 1 57 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 journal article 10.3897/zoologia.37.e46879 1984-4689 6995FEC3-00D4-48C4-97D9-93FB9435B912 Lispe niveimaculata Stein, 1906 Syntypes . 1 male , 1 female . Tanzania . Diagnosis. Length of body. 7.0 mm (male, female). Head. Male dichoptic, frons broad, about one-third of head-width. Frons and fronto-orbital plate shiny dark brown, silver pollinose only close to lunule. Face, parafacial and gena brownish-yellow pruinose. Ocellar triangle indistinct. Male fronto-orbital plate with a few setulae. Antenna and arista brown, pedicel paler at apex; arista bare on apical third. Palpus yellow; abruptly enlarged towards apex. Vibrissa long. Thorax. Scutum brown, grey dusted; 1 brown median vitta and 2 broad dark brown lateral vittae. Dorsocentrals 0+1. Katepisternals 0+0+1. Haltere yellow. Calypters white. Legs. Coxae silver pruinose; trochanters yellow; femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown, whitish silver dusted. Fore femur with 2–3 differentiated ventral setae in apical third. Fore tibia with 1 submedian posterior seta. Mid femur with 1 posterior preapical seta. Mid tibia with 2 posterodorsal setae on middle third; without anterodorsal and anteroventral setae. Hind tibia with 1 median anterodorsal; without anteroventral and posterodorsal setae; without preapical dorsal. Arolium and pulvillus not enlarged. Wing. Costal spine indistinct. Vein M straight. Abdomen. Sternite 1 setulose. Remarks. It can be identified with the keys by Emden (1941) to Afrotropical Lispe and by Couri et al. (2006) to Madagascan species.